'Revealed In Freak The Mighty'

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In the short story Freak The Mighty the theme of the story is to not judge a person on what they look like. Throughout my life I have seen people being judged on how they look and I myself have been judged for the way that I look. My best friend always gets called a midget just because he is smaller than everybody else is and they always make fun of him because of his size. I have judged my teachers before because the way they look like how one of my teachers always was scowling and I thought he would be mean but he turned out to be one of the nicest teachers i've ever had. From both of those experiences I learned to not just judge someone just because of the way that they appeared.

The character Max Kane is first described as dumb and, a goon that grows an inch every day, and and brainless. If we were to judge him solely on his appearance we might think that he is a guy who might not care too much about others or anything like that. In fact when we were first introduced to Max he was in daycare and he says “I was given a nickname called “kicker” because I booted anyone who dared to touch me.” This shows that he might not like being around others and would mulch rather just be alone. Also max says that “I …show more content…

“And this little midget kid, this crippled humanoid, he actually scared you.” If we were to judge him just on the way he looked i'm sure we wouldn't think he is in middle school just because of his height. When we first see Freak he is also in daycare with max and he is pretending to be a robot because he has these shiny braces on strapped to his crooked legs. This shows that he can be nice and funny and love his life even though he is crippled. Later on in the book we see Freak and max going out on quests every day and having the best times of their lives. This proves that even though Freak is small and crippled he is still very wize and can have a life like normal kids

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